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Introduction - How to Android Development Guide

Android apps development is very awesome & entertaining. It gives us lots of benefits as a programmer of Android apps. Do you want build an Android app and showcase it on the Android marketplace ( i.e Google Play)? Then, this the right place for you to get started with the Android application development.




This post has it say's is a brief introduction about Android and how one could benefit from  being an Android developer. We, would be discussing about coding and related in the coming posts. So, stay tuned and subscribe us to stay updated with latest in Google technology.

As, we all know Android has been the most popular Mobile Operating System worldwide. With, total market share estimated to be 58.8 % of the total Mobile Operating System market.

The reason for such popularity of Android as it is an Open Source Operating System it is easily available. And,  the fact that it is Open Source there is a huge base of developer community to help you with a solution for any issues or errors encountered during development.

Android’s openness has made it a favorite for consumers and developers alike, driving strong growth in app consumption. In the third quarter 2011 alone, people downloaded more than 2.4 billion apps to their Android devices.And with Google Play (premier marketplace for selling and distributing apps to Android users around the world) you reach hundreds of millions of customers in over 130 countries.

Also, the fact that there are more than 200 million activated Android devices, and every day more than 550,000 new devices are activated in more than 137 countries and hence, it could be rightly said that 'Android is here to stay'.Thus, with those astonishing stat's one could easily see what future Android beholds beneath it in the coming future for all the developers.

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